Bld Terrace Review —

IVAN NAVARRO: When | finally left Panama in 1988, the

Wednesday, May 9, 1990

Honor students named at —
Caledonia and Skeena |

The administration at Cale-
donia Senior Secondary and

# Skeena Junior Secondary, last

problems had just started getting worse.

Who is...

Ivan Navarro?

by Betty Barton

Ivan’ Navarro is a roadway
design ‘engineer for the geo-
technical branch of the Ministry
‘of Highways in Terrace, and
he’s a world traveller.

Navarro arrived here on Jan.
15 from Calgary to commence a
number of highways projects in
‘this area. He is presently work-
ing on-several paving designs for
section four (from Meziadin to

' Bell Irving) of the Stewart-
Cassiar highway. Navarro says
that project managers or con-
tractors take care of quality con-
trol_and design implementation,
so he doesn’t know how in-
volved he’ ll be in the actual con-
struction process.

This is Navarro’s first govern-
ment job in Canada. Since his
emigration from Chile in 1974,
he has worked for private com-
panies from Calgary to
Venezuala to Panama to Nepal.
He and his wife Alba, two of
their five daughters and their
son Rodrigo (the youngest) left
Chile in 1974 during the coup
against Allende (pronounced
Ayenday). When they first ar-
rived in Toronto, Navarro took
English courses. He already read
and wrote English, but hadn’t
much chance to practise it. He
still occasionally finds that peo-
ple don’t understand him, but he
just smiles and tries again.

Ivan Navarro obtained his

‘degree in highways engineering
in 1962 at the University of Chile
in Santiago. In 1975, he and his
family moved to Calgary where
he worked in soil investigation

and research for a geo-technical
company, Klonh Leonoff.
In 1976 they moved to

Venezuala where Ivan worked

for the government doing
highways quality control on a
$300 million freeway to La Fria,

“When Venezuala still had a lot.

of money from the oil fields,”
quips Navarro. Chilean en-

_ gineering friends who had fled

to Venezuala had called. him in
Calgary when they needed. his
engineering expertise, ——
Back in Calgary, Navarro.
went to work for Geocon doing |

geotech’ engineering ‘working

more on highways with earth
treatment. He went to Ghana

with them, and then worked |
with the same company again in

Panama.

“When I finally left Panama
in 1988, the problems had just
started getting worse,”’

a freeway through the heart of
Panama City. His wife and his

son Rodrigo had vacationed -

there with him, but they lived in

Calgary during his. sojourn in

Panama.

In Nepal, Navarro’s ‘next:

foreign posting, he found the
working methods totally dif-
ferent. A lot of work, including

moving earth and making
‘crush’ for highway topping,

was done by hand.

Ivan Navarro enjoyed his en-—

gineering experiences around the

-world, but he says, ‘Now I just

want to stay in one place. Too
much travelling and my wife
started to feel alone.’’ He is im-
pressed with the landscape of
Terrace, He looks forward to his
wife’s arrival from Calgary in
May. Then they will find a per-
manent home, go camping, take
time for fishing — which Ivan
really likes — and make north-
western B.C, ‘home’,

_ Dennis Venema,

Says .
Navarro. Navarro had been
working on pavement design for:

week.released the names of stu-
dents who achieved honor roll
status for the reporting period
ending in mid-April. The
students are:

Caledonia Senior
Sacondary School

Outstanding Achievement —
Corinna J. Adams, Brian D.
Anderson, Lara A. Bachynsky,
Suzanne Banville, Richard W.
Blower, Jessica Campbell,
Carmen Cebuliak, Raymond
Chretien, Nicole Collison, Bob
Cuddeford, Penny Dover,
Heather -C.. Dreger, Chad Ed-
monds, David Edmonds, Chad
Patrick Elwood, Nicole Fick,
Ken Giesbrecht, . Lynne
Hallman, Troy Hansen, Dalice
Kelln, Margarete Koerner,
Jason Krause, Devon Kuiper,
Linda Lagace, Sandra Loptson,
Scott Alexander Loptson,
Kirstin Mackenzie,

Theresa Newhouse, Shelley

O’Brien, Joanne Ogawa, Mike:

Parker, Amandeep Parmar,
Jason A. Parviainen,
Sainis, David Shepherd, Alison
Siemens, Ryan W. Stevenson,
Paul Strangway,. Callie Swan,
Lia Wandl,
Heidi Wiebe, Lee P. Wilkerson,
Nathan P. Wilkerson, Scott
Wilson, Dave Wolfe.
‘Meritorious Achievement —
Nicole Annandale, Nicole Bing-
ham, Frances Brodie, Kamaljit

Buttar, Rick Glasspell, Dean

Horner, Stacee Martin, Tami
Moritz, Angela Parmar, Sham-
man Ramsundhar,
Ryan, Danny Scarborough,

Tracy L. Story, Tracey Tomas. -

Honourable Meation —

, Carey Agnew, ‘Matthew ‘Albert,
_ Chad - Albright, «Clint Baker,
“Heather: | Bretfeld,. eenne

Elizabeth - -
Mendes, Carolle L. Michaud,. »

Vicky ©

Angela .

Bryant, Jessie Carroll, Melanie
Clayton, Linda Cuddeford,
Joanne Mar Degerness, Bruce
deHoog, Carl Devost, Greg 5.
Doeleman,
David Falardeau, Kyle Frank,
Carol Gerler, Kuljit Gill, Lak-
winder Gill, Chris Grieve, David

. Hamhuis, Todd Hancock, Leila

Jormanainen, John Konst,

Kevan Letawske, Kyle Lindsay, -
T-Jay

Erica Lloyd-Jones,”
‘Mackenzie, Michelle Michaud,
Theresa Middleton, Joe Mogg;
Shawn D. Munson, Brent

Neeve, Felicia Olson, Kannin —

Osei-Tutu, Gary Peden, Jason
Petho, Jody L. Popp, Dallas A.
Prevost, Charlotte: Reiter,
Spencer Roches, Leesha .V.
Sabine, Alice Soares, Elvira
Soares, Monica Sousa, Danielle

St. Thomas, Wade Steele, Dean- —

na B. Thain, Kristine Torgalson,

Kenna Turcotte, Diana Vallee, ©

David Vincenzi, .
Wiebe. a.
: Skeena Junior
‘Secondary School
Grade 8

Honours — Theresa Ander-
son, Malkit -Atwal, Deborah
Casey, Thomas Cowell, Binh
Du, Stephen Fleming, Stella
Haigh, Brandy Hansen, Shan-
non Henderson, Erik Hernes,
Clare Jennings, Pauline Lepp,
Phung Liu, Sandra Mantel, Jen-
nifer McMynn, Leslie Mc-

Brenda-Lee

- Quade, Julia Middleton, Sonita

Nahal, .Depak Parmar, -Upasna
Ramsundhar, Hannah Rensby,
Jillian Smith, Lara Tessaro,

Dawn Thomsen, Alanna Tur- —

cotte, Suzannah. Vandevelde,
Anne Vu.
. Merliorlons Achievement _—

Carolyn Craig. .

Honourable Meation —- Colin
: Cann, Suki Dhillon, Lana Geier,

: Gurpreet Gill, Carl Goodall,

‘Dawn. Haight,. Learine Hidber,
Rupinder: Kandola, Ann

Karen Erstling, ..

Menard, Helen Raposo, Aiden
Sheridan, Deborah Stainton,
Natasha Young.

Grade 9

Honours — Ngaio Beausoleil,
Curtis .Bretherick, Sunny Deol,
Bao-Van Diep, Tien Du, Shan-
non Hamhuis, Stephanie Hynes,
Erica. Jennings, Robbie Lar-
mour, Kenna Miskelly, Jackie
Palmu, Manpreet Parmar, Kale
Pauls; Anthony Roodzant,
Parmpal Sandhu, Jon Shepherd,
Brenda Wiebe.

Meritorious Achievement —
Catherine Cann, Shawn Carson,
Jason Dvorak, Bryan Fick,
Anna-Marie Graham, Emily
Henderson, Christine Morrison,
Danyel Zilinski.
Honourable Mention
Jason Matzner, Sheldon Mcin-
nes, Nicole Page, Jason Prevost, .

‘Tina Raposo, Sonya Schulmeis-

ter, Kezia Sinkewicz, Julie Teix-
eira, Rebecca Van Herk, Leah

. Wilson.

Grade 10 -
_ Honours : — Carl Anderson,

Brian Cox, Meredith Crampton,

Bao Long Diep, Jason Elorza,
Alayne Fleischmann, Kelly
Gingles, Angela Henszel, Scott
Hodson, Barbara Kuzyk,
Theresa Laderoute, Lung Liu,
Wendy McLachlan, Susanne
Miskelly, Manon Morin,‘ Mark
Neeve, Kevin Oates, Joseph -

Pelletier, Matthew Phillips, Roy _ .

Megan Reid, . Kyle-
Terry Vu, Chris

Preyser,
Stevenson,
Wilkinson. | .
-Merltorices Achievement —

Bobby Basanti, Fatima Botelho,

Chris Irving, Chris Oldham, Kip
Parsons, Robin Sharples, Chad .
Wilson.

Honourable Mention —
Amanita Coosemans,
Dougan, Matthew ‘Fowler,
Shawn: Giesbreent,. Dawson
Kelin. : ;

” Northwest Arts and.
-E ntertainment Calendar

.R.E.M. Lee Theatre —

-@: May 11, 7:30 p.m. — Cassie Halt Band Concert. |
@ May 12, 7:30 p.m. — Clarence Michiel Band Concert.
-@ May 19, 8 p.m. — Miss Terrace Pageant.

@ May 31, 8 p.m.
Barnswell.

‘Terrace Art Gallery =

— “Room 44’, by local playwrightiirectr ‘Daniel:

@ May 6 to 26 — Leslie Barnwell’s “Vast Solitude”.
_ Northern Motor Inn, George’s Pub —_

e “Champagne Plus”.

: The Terrace inn —
.@ Gigi’s —

- “Thumper” - Top 40 band.

@ Augie’s — Bobby Lee.
Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 13 _

@ May 11 and 12 —
friend.

Kitimat Mount Elizabeth Theatre —
@ May 10 — Green Thumb Theatre presents ‘“‘Land of Trash”,

Prince Rupert Performing Arts Centre —

“Rocky Tops” and: “Open Bar” celebration. Bring a.

@ May 10, 7 p.m. — “Big Feet’, a production of King Edward Elementary

School.

@ May 12, 7:30 p.m. — Miss Prince Rupert Pageant.

Linc.

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